Tesla Model 3 crashes into overturned truck on highway

Drive Tesla Canada · 3.7M views · 2020 · 1:19

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as an example of Autopilot failures in discussions about the limits of Tesla's driver assistance and self-driving.

What it is

Dashcam-style footage of a Tesla Model 3 crashing into an overturned truck on a highway in Taiwan during the morning commute.

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What Hacker News said

Cites tim333 · 2022-12 · on “Waymo's collision avoidance testing”

I don't know - I must have seen five or so headlines in the papers but don't really follow the stuff. Here's one [this video]

Critical dragontamer · 2020-06 · on “Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure”

[this video] There are no brake lights on the Model 3. None at all. Based on this "reverse video", my conclusion is that the M3 doesn't even brake. ------- Somewhat worrying is the pedestrian (the truck driver?) who jumps back to get out of the way of the M3. Not only did the M3 miss the truck, but the M3 didn't seem to see the pedestrian either.

Critical mrtksn · 2021-01 · on “Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works””

People die all the time, there are even higher profile cases like the Apple Engineer who slammed in the barriers at full speed: [LINK] There are some spectacular failures that are very scary because the car does something that a person would never do, unless unconscious, like this one: [this video] You don't hear much about it probably because Tesla fanboys are plenty and rabid, so people avoid talking about it online. The defence is usually stats about human drivers crashing more often and it makes sense until you dive deeper into the numbers because these stats are usually oranges v.s. Apples. It feels like they have some playbook with statistics to slap when someone says something negative. If

Critical Danieru · 2021-03 · on “Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving”

Here is your "but this time it is fine" Autopilot attempting to murder yet another driver just 9 months ago: [this video]